I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
When you go home tonight, make a list of the people who are impediments, who don't believe in you, and call them… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want.… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“But for Soraya, words on a page were seductive, free, inviting everyone, without distinction. She could not help it when she found… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
“They were readers for whom literature was a drug, each complex plot line delivering a new high, suspending them above reality, allowing… — Gloria Goldreich Copy Share Image
“Reading good literature is not so different then taking good drugs, do it enough and it will certainly alter your mind. The… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
“When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out from between their pages –… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I did the first proofreading of 'A Brief History of Time,' and when it came to writing my memoir, I consulted many… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
“But ebooks will rule the day, and when people a few years from now talk about 'books', what they'll really be referring… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
“So,” he said after a minute. “I was thinking that afterward if you’re up for it, we could check out the post… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I finally figured out that it doesn't matter what other people want to read. It matters what you want to write. You… — Jami Montgomery Copy Share Image
“You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, an editor could try out one or two wacky books, knowing full well that their list would counterbalance… — Andrew Latimer Copy Share Image
I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking… — Benicio Del Toro Copy Share Image
Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced… — David Leavitt Copy Share Image
And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream,… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“You may be a serious writer if …. 10. your hard drive is littered with random notes and story ideas … but… — Kathy Disanto Copy Share Image
“Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
“I delete the last line, and then the entire paragraph. Lies. I am forgetting that this is not an ordinary novel, that… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
“Great literature remains great when it says new things to new generations, and the loops of a knot quite nicely parallel the… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
“Assign someone who isn’t actively participating in the discussion to be the scribe, responsible for taking accurate notes. Session notes should contain… — Karl Wiegers Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
